Life in the US Women's Prison, where

In the United States in Phoenix, Arizona, there is a prison under the name Estrella. His very fame it acquired thanks to the fact that is the only in the United States, which for the rehabilitation of women prisoners using a program called punishment Chain Gang. Simply put, it involves the sharing of a black prisoner and unskilled work in the course of which they are chained to each other long chain.

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In general, this system has a traditional southern US states in the 19th and the first half of the 20th century, and in 1955 abolished both inhumane and does not meet the spirit of the time. However, in 1995 it again began to be applied to the male contingent in some prisons south of the United States. And in the Estrella jail downtown Phoenix decided to go even further - to extend the system of such punishment on women for the simple reason that both women and men in the United States have equal rights and, therefore, no one should make any concessions.
But enough lyrical digressions - time to move on to the point. Under existing rules, this program is called "Last Chance" and can be assigned only to women prisoners, who are serving their punishment is not very serious articles (such as driving while intoxicated, false testimony, petty fraud and theft of goods in supermarkets), and a period no more than 1 year. To some it may seem surprising, but the snare penalty of one chain and public works free women prisoners choose for themselves purely voluntary manner. The reasons that encourage many American zechek make such a choice, very simple. In sentencing the courts, despite the relatively short time of his release, the majority of them are appointed by the rigors of punishment (something like punishment cells, to put it to the Russian style). This mode of punishment involves the compulsory wearing striped prison robes, bezvylazno finding prisoners in 2 - 4-bed cells for 23 hours a day and a meager 2 meals a day. The prisoner is also forbidden to have around salt, cigarettes, coffee, ketchup and mirrors, listen to music and watch TV (except for transmission of the weather and how to prepare delicious food), and for any trip to the nurse, they must pay $ 10, and seeing incoming to their family members meeting exclusively through the glass. The trick here is that after serving 30 days of voluntary Spent chain and free public works sentenced women receive special certificates and with it the right to resettlement in the overall camp with lighter regime further punishment.
In turn, the system itself Chain Gang involves the binding of a long chain of 5 arestantok and joint implementation of activities such as collection of waste on roadsides, mowing weeds on vacant lots (locally 40 - 45 degree heat) and dumping the bodies of homeless people in the city Cemetery. A main goal of such a system of punishment, according to the chief of the prison, is short-sighted thinking to train inmates for discipline and organization in their actions and for all counter the lure of ever again tolerate violations of his life.

1. View of one of the prison cells for a few minutes before the morning rise



2. Upgrade prisoners



3. Before starting to wash ...



4. The two have experienced a prisoner to help newcomer properly roll up your sleeves before the working day



5. Standing in line before beginning the process obuvaniya in heavy boots and getting marching gear (in a baseball cap, work gloves and pouches with water bottles)



6. The movement of the column to a place in the group arestantok shackling fetters



7. Prison guards fix the chain on the legs of women escorted



8. The command guards take place a prisoner at a certain distance from each other, then to withstand during its movement



9. Women in prison, agreed to include in the process of execution of public works in chains, before leaving daily pass the pen with the accumulation of 1 hour evicted to arestantok that have not yet matured to the implementation of such a move, or simply persist in their unwillingness to thus go to work



10. In the course of the group move through the courtyard prison inmates obliged to move systems with a loud choral recitation of slogans urging on their



11. View of the legs of the column moving arestantok, prisoners in shackles group



12. Landing in prison bus



13. During the drive to and from work



14. The landing of the prisoners from the prison bus



15. During the mandatory briefing before starting work



16. The alignment of the labor force on separate sections of the work



17. And so is the process of cleaning debris from roadside verges more closely ...



18. ... and often it is carried out at 40-degree heat



19. A short break during work to clean tools and a little water to drink



20. Field equipment arestantok a baseball cap, working gloves and a water bottle at a distance closer



21. The line of prisoners in the mobile toilet



22. The total construction after the completion of the administration of natural needs



23. During the briefing before starting work on the dead bodies of homeless people in the city cemetery in Phoenix



24. One, two, and have suffered the next stiffs ...



25. Female prisoners are watching the process of lowering the coffin brought them to the grave



26. Another view of the leg irons and the same arestantok more closely



27. Prisoners throw grave ground



28. brief rest after the completion of another burial



29. The process of reverse escorting a group of American zechek from the place of employment to the place of landing in prison bus



30. Compulsory search and inspection of personal belongings to identify anything forbidden after the final completion of



31. Bringing herself up and clean working shoes immediately after returning to the prison



32. Sitting a prisoner during the daily educational lectures at his prison camp



33. Only after that you can finally relax after 8 hours on the sweltering heat



34. It looks like a prison camp to undress his part



35. Few women prisoners rested leisurely stroll through the prison yard



36. In spite of everything, life still goes on - a prisoner turns doing each other massages and beauty treatments are simple



37. ... and still show her friends her new pictures of their relatives

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